United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) Data Centre

Spatial coverage: Statistical data is available for all 58 regional member states of the ESCAP.

Statistical range: The main part of this database includes the topics economy and social policy and in particular, themes such as labour market, education, health, poverty, gender, transport and tourism.

Periodicity / time series: Data is available annually. Most time series are available from 1990 onwards.. Monthly or quarterly figures are available in the short term indicators database..

Charges / registration: The ESCAP database is accessible online and is available free of charge.

Further information: The database is in English. ESCAP is a secondary data provider repackaging, on a continuous basis, key development indicators from a number of most respected and internationally comparable data sources, Original data sources are always indicated. Statistical data series are also available as animated charts. The Statistical Yearbook can be downloaded as pdf-file or as separate Excel-spreadsheets or gif-charts.